One morning last April, a young woman in the Czech Republic woke up and checked her e-mail. She was waiting for an important message. Every morning, first thing, she’d check for it.
One day decades ago, a know-it-all sophomore sent a letter to his UNL dean, telling him exactly what he thought of the university. How much he hated it.
Nebraska alumni Peter Sommerhauser and Eileen Sommerhauser Putter donated $100,000 to establish the Lou Sommerhauser Fund for Holocaust Education.
“If I could ever say anything, face to face, with the people who gave me the money to chase my dreams … it would be a very long handshake and possibly a hug,” says Parker Loghry, a Thompson Scholar at UNK. “I would just look them in the eye and say, ‘You have no idea.’”
Four University of Nebraska students had studied Turkey more than almost anyone else in the world their age. But then they spent a few weeks in that country last summer, and their textbooks opened wide. They walked inside.
Remember this name: Sophie hines. You may see it on your underwear someday.
Alyson Alvarez is the youngest of five and the first in her family to attend college.
Neither of her parents graduated from high school, so the fact that she is working on her doctorate in history at UNL, she says, “is a really big deal” to them and to her big, extended family back home in Southern California.
UNL biological systems engineering senior Keith Ozanne doesn’t have words enough to thank all the donors for what they’ve given him.
A new scholarship has been created to support journalism students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln interested in using technology to chart a new path in media and media innovation.
A career 3M executive who left a lasting impact on the company also left a lasting legacy at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with an endowed scholarship.
The University of Nebraska Foundation (EIN: 47-0379839) is exempt from federal income tax under the provisions of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
